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Fabulous Bell in the Raadch
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Xander is touching up her outfit - he has shoe ideas, something he saw on In Skirts he wants to riff on - when the snake appears.

He sees it first because she can't see anything around her while in starscape. He pushes her out of the way - she doesn't realize what's going on in time to abort the reflex action of stopping herself on the way down - can't switch targets fast enough to stop the snake, when she notices it, to stop it from going on to eat her after it's already gotten him.

Then -

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Cool. He will wear a towel around for two hours so as not to scandalize his sister.

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"- which can be spelled either d-o-n-u-t or d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t, I think the first one's a simplification derived from the second - hi, Xander."

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"Hey.

"We live here now."

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"Yeah."

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He flops his head on her shoulder while he waits for his clothes.

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They arrive at the promised time.

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Isabella fetches them at the door for him and he changes.

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And once the tablet knows how to write they can go see what's playing in the theater. "- or can we, do we have money, does it cost money -"

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"You have an expense account."

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"How do we use it?"

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"You can give your name and room number and deliveries, as well as events in this building, will be automatically charged to you."

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"What if we want to pay for something that doesn't take place in this building?"

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"You buy it online."

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"So no cash, no cards, I just buy it the same way I would a delivery?"

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"That's right."

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"Seems simple enough."

They go see what's playing in the theater.

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Their options are:

a drama/romance starring a kid from a poor, recently colonized world trying to prove herself and an embittered, newly single heiress with a secret that could destroy her family

a sports drama about some zero-gravity basketballish game and a team of underdogs preparing for the championship

a romantic comedy about coworkers at a luxury resort 

a murder mystery also set at a luxury resort, starring a bunch of people whose names are in VERY BIG TEXT

a historical drama set four hundred years ago on a then-newly-annexed planet

a romantic comedy about outrageously rich people who need to get married to meet the conditions of their inheritance

a kid's movie in which household appliances are all people conspiring to help a kid whose parents turn into green spiky monsters at night

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...let's go with the first one. "Can you comment on inaccuracies as we go?" she asks the tablet.

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"In romantic movies people typically behave in ways that would in the real world be a strong indication you shouldn't romance them," says the tablet. 

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"I meant more like noting oversimplifications about the planets or cultural facts in play."

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"I can try that."

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"Thanks."

They go sit down for the movie. Isabella gets an aisle seat so only one of her wings has to scrunch oddly in the seat not meant for her.

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The protagonists are very pretty and have obvious chemistry and spend most of the movie quietly resenting and misunderstanding and manipulating each other while having a lot of sex and eventually they figure things out and tearfully apologize and have better sex. Her tablet is happy to provide bits of historical context - when that planet was colonized, who chose to live there, how unusual it is for kids from those populations to earn those aptitude scores.

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"Do scores vary a lot between populations?" she types.

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"Yes. There are likely some genetic differences in aptitudes, and there are also differences in schooling, encouragement, the extent to which the scores are considered a priority..."

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